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...other hand, are proving themselves less willing to be absorbed, while just as eager to learn from the journalist's trade. As the recent popularity of documentary film indicates, movies are developing a sense for the news, and at the same time confirming a sense of themselves. Unlike Mailer and Wolfe, who for all their talent have contributed nothing to the novel, Godard and Ophuls, albeit in drastically different ways, have put celluloid to the uses of newsprint and have made movies the richer...
Other luminaries in the press section include Norman Mailer--who showed up for just a few days--perhaps he decided that the whole affair was not bookworthy...
More substantively: one of the eight or so degree recepients customarily is a denizen of the literary world. Ken Kesey and Allen Ginsberg are definite Longshots so leading the pack are John Updike '54 and Norman K. Mailer...
...Mailer would probably get drunk and stampede through the proceedings like a crazed bull elephant, so Updike, who writes novels and poems that The New Yorker likes, is considered a better shot...
...Foley, mimeographed 75 copies of an anthology of short stories written by themselves and friends. The issue drew immediate critical approval. With Burnett as editor and later his second wife, Hallie, as assistant, Story survived 40 years and was first to publish the short stories of William Saroyan, Norman Mailer and Truman Capote...